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IN issue 260 you published my positive response to Chris White’s letter concerning the future for small ‘nowhere to nowhere’railways.

In the same issue, David R Holt writes from Australia and likens these railways to one near where he lives that failed, and because of that he fears that those in the UK will suffer a similar fate.

Interest and support for railway preservation is not at the same level in Australia and any comparison of the two is not meaningful. My

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